The Sun. — London, England, 1810-09-14 00:00:00

U 7111 LDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, As su.menc the public Prints and other periodical Publications have noticed cases which.have been given as remarkable instances of failure of the Cow -Pox,anci as the subject is of 'great importance*. to mankind, not only at present; but in ail future ages, you will not perhaps objet to the insertion of the following fat3s, which 'appear to me more "fatal and as decid ed as that which is reported to have happened 'at Ringwood.' About February or March last, sixty nine per sons .1% ere inOcul,i•e(l for the cow-pox, at Widford, in Haag, and the matter, was obtained from Dr. •Walker's,Society, and carefully inserted by-an emi nent Surgeon, of 1-Idham, about t►ro months • dffer, the. n;itural 4mall-pox broke out in the place; when twenty-nine of the. vaccinated persons caught the small-pox and nine of them died. Fifty were in- oculated after Wards. with the small-pox by another Surgeon, and all recovered. Some persons have lately been sent to Wirlford to enqu:re into this' strong faa, which was not only authenticated, but some of the Jennerian eruptions and had arms were added to the account: The names of those who died, were V. Burton, five years; Mary Catmore, thirteen years; Ann Catmoie, eleven' years;. W. Catmore, three years ; • Emma Prior, six months; Martha Wren, six years; 'ohm Felsteci, one year; lames ThorOughgoo.l, two years; Charles IVybrow, six months. N B. A foreign • Surgeon was lately in London, to make enquiry the . cause of so many failures on the Continent, but a: DI Jenner wa: not tr, be hearJ of in London, and the National Establi:htnent have not givcrt any information of his visit to them . , we cannot say what intelligence he carried back With him. VERAX. • For the truth of this account you may enquire of Mr. Rogers, Spring Garden, but you may depend on the authenticity of it. * As we agree with our Correspondent respeaing the im portance of the stibjea.,we deem it our duty to insert his Letter; and shall feel it our duty also to admit the state. ment and arguments of the 'advocates on both sides of the question. while they refrain from personality, and present fads in such a manner as shall accord with the principles and chatader of a public Journal. For our own part, we cannot but avow our confidence in a discovery which. from a vast body of evidence, appears to haVe been successfully practised all over the world. MAILS. Altßivsb—l Dublin, 1 Waterford. nut— t Lisbon, i Waterford. PRICF. - In STOCKS THIS CAI( AT T vvF Ly O'CLOCK. 67} I Omnium t'onsols . _ T Ei L SUN. QUiS DICIRE FAT SUN! AUDEAT LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1810. norning favoured with the follow- York,-ditted August_7th " A Prioßitit, - a native Of Mexico, who took pas sige in a vessel from Norfolk , at arrived at Ha vanna, with intention to go to Catnpeachy, has been arrested and confined at Havanna.. A number of in flammatory papers were found among his luggage; and it is supposed he will be condemned' as a spy and, suffer deat • " Sailed yesterday the United States brig Hornet, of 18 guni, Capt. HUNT, for France and England'. The Hornet has a Government Messenger on board." If the accounts from Spain of the success of Ge nerals BALLASTEROS and CAaRERA over the French General MORTIER, should prove true to the extent stated, the French army in Andalusia will be Vaned rather in a critical situation. The active operations commenced by the garrison of Cadiz, in the sight of the besieging army, will add very much to the em barrasrnent of VICTOR, and, will, ,we think, 'ulti mately, unless he receives large reinforcements, com pel him to raise the siege. The communi- cations between VICTOR'S camp and Seville, and between Seville and Madrid, are at present most precarious; ac►d if they should be cut off, the French, army must of courie retreat. The'great efforts v Bich BLIONAPAIITE directed to be made on the frontiers of Portugal, have paralysed ope ra ions of the French in tl4e Southern and eastern parts of Spain, while the immense force under MAI SENA is moulderin i g away, without having' achiev:d any object proportioned to its strength, or to the expectations of BUONAPARTE. But while we look forward With sanguine expectations to the progress of the war in Andalusia, and the eastern provinces, we are not without hopes that some vigorous ef forts will be made in the north. The success of the'expedition under Gen. PORLIER, has shewn what may be done by a ban,lfull of men iin that quarter; and from the exvriions which the Galli cins and Acturians have hitherto trnade, ti ere is every reason to hope that they will not nqi ed to avail thenisclvef of the advantages that are th )1v in their power. We mentioned yesterday a gallant exploit ner• formed by the boats of his Majesty's ship Dre ad nought ; .the following cif-_!faiis are contained in he Leiter of our Plymouth Correspondent which. a ve rec . ( iced this morning,dated September 12 : 'We stated yesterday that his Majesty's shi p Dreadnought had arrived here with / a large ship , having been cut out by her boats near Ushant ; the ship proves to be the Spanish vessel Antonio Maria, Captain ASPILGA, fromleneriffet, bUrthen about two hundred tons, with a Cargo of bA rilla, bound to London; she had been captUred by a French privateer, and the following we understand to be the particulars relatiVe to this, gallant exploit that on the Dreadnought's coming round Ustiant on the • evening of the 9th' instant, this Spanish vessel was . discovered in a small creek, near that place, and it was determined that she should be brought out 'from thence on the fo3owing morning at day-break, and, in consequence, at five A. M. several boats, well manned and armed, pro. ceeded to the attack, and on their approach were constantly galled by a heavy fire of small 'arms, and two 4-pounder field-pieces from the shore, which did considerable damage to the boats ; notwithstand ing this, and. the loss of several of their brave corp. panions, nothing could damp the ardour display ed by the British seamen; who, on nearing the ves sel, perceived the French soldiers leave her in the greatest 'consternation and confusion, some of. which were drowned in attempting to swim to the shore, although she was within half pistol-shot . from the beach. During the 'time they . were ,bringing her out, they were opposed to the destrudive fire of 600. troops, and we are sorry to state, were notable to return it effeduallY, as the French soldirs were si tuated on a tremendous precipice, and.secure from any attack that could be made on them by so small though brave a party. The losS on our, part is very Considerable, and' which is the most painful part of our duty to relate; it consists of a- Master's Mate, a Midshipman, and 10 seamm killed, 2 Lieutenants, andabout 20 seamen wounded ; there are 'also two boats with their crews missing, that drifted 'ashore during the heat of the action in consequence of their painters being shot, through, and which are supposed to have been taken possession of by the enemy. The privateer that captured this vessel, was discovered in a small creek, about a mile, from her prize, but did not make any attempt to render her . assistance; and in consequence of the severe los - s on our part it was not deemed proper to attack her." Ansther letter says— " . Among the killed we arc sorry to mention -Lieut. MIDPLETON, and Mr. ROBERTSON, Midship man. Lieutenants . ALTON and BLACKLIER are among the wounded."' The opponents of the Union, in Dublin, who are at present so busily employed in endeavouring to effect its repeal, seem to entertain the most strange and incorreEt ,notions respecting • the real nature of that measure, as will appear from the questions proposed to the Recordr.of Dublin for his opinipn. The Committee wet on. the 10th instant to receiv‘e, the opinion of the Reco►der on three papers sub mitted to him :-- The first purported to be , an Address to his Ma jesty the King, 'guesting that he would be pleased to call a Parliament in Ireland. To- this the Re corder objeaed, that if it was intended that the Parliament so to be called were the Irish Parliament, it would be impossible for his Majesty, who was as much bound by the Laws of the Realm as his poorest xnbjeet, to comply, while the Union A& remained in force. The second paper was a petition to his Majesty, praying his aid to dissolve the Union.. To this the Recorder said, in his opinion it would be more ad visable to pray his Majesty to direct his Ministers to prepare an AA to.be laid before Parliament for that purpose. — the third paper was answered in the same man ner, as to the mode of proceeding, which was all that he was bound to advise; without going into the subjea : he thought it best to refer to the next Quarter Assembly, to draw up petitions to the dif ferent branches of the Legislature,. praying a repeal. " Upon the whole, (says an• Irish Paper) though it was confessed Abet the proceedings hitherto had been irregular, it was with some reludance the Corn mitee consented to corre& them, fearful that at the next Quarter Assembly, Loth Houses:. would not be found quite so mad as at the former.!' Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, Princesses Av- GUSTA and SOPHIA, took and airing in Windsor Park till twelve o'clock. The Royal Party was accompa nied by Lady ELY, Lord WALSINGHAM, &C. Princess AMELIA remains much the same as she has been for some da)S past. . . Letters from Gibraltar of the 22d of August, state, that the enemy had abandoned St. Roque and Alge siraq, and the circuit of territory adjacent to the Bri tish fortress. I'l►e Masters of the American vessels at Chris tiansand, in Norway, have published the following answer to the reasons giVen by the Danish Prize Court for condemning the Hannah, of Boston, as stated in yesterday's Paper : .‘ We, the unders . gned Masters of American vessels, now in the port of Christiansand, having heard with astonish. ment thar some of the principal charges brought against the American brig Hanuah, from Boston direst, bound to Riga, and a market, and condemned at the Prize 'Court at this place, are as follow " Ist. That the said Court have prononnced it absoltitely impossible to cross the Atlantic Ocean without a chart of the same. " 2d. That it is equally impossible to cross the Atlantid without the aid of sextant. •' We therefore feel fully authorised to assert, that we have frequently made voyages from America to Europe without either the above chart or sextant, and are fully persuaded that every seaman, with common nautical talents or skill,. who has e•rer crossed the AtlAntic, cannot h...smate to sub•' scribe io the same." Christianard, Aug. ro, a tcerises ate eotV gratited for imports frotrethe Baltic, to expire on the tir3t of January, tBI 1 , and tkose f►►rmerly issued, that terminate at an carlier pe►iod, are to be extended to that date. Some letters have been received from Paris h which state that a report prevailed there, that • the Arch &lke CHARLES would soon be declared King. of the Romans. The following areextraas of letters from persons of ihe highest respe6tability : " CADIZ, AuO. 23.--Yesterdayevening an expe dition sailed from this port. Its destination is at present unknown, but it steered in a Northerly , di rection. It consisted of 3,500 Spanish troops, .300 British seamen, and 1.50 marines, carrying - with' them two pieces of cantinn,.gun-boats, scaling lad 7 ders, and combustibles.'"The troops are under Gem Lacey, who has as second in command under him Colonel Cruz,. who made the famous gallant stand at Lerrein with the volunteers of thistity at the time of the defeat of General Castanos in Arragoii: The, greatest hopes are entertained, from the combined plans of our Generals, and the critical situation in which the French are pMced.itfAndalusii. _ . " AUG. 25.—The Packet 'ha's been detained by order of the English Ambassador, that he might be able to transmit to his Court an account olthe result of the expedition which sailed on the 22d. Its des , tination is supposed to be Moguer, or 1 - Inela, and from thence to march and join a division of the army of WillaSteros, on its road to Seville. ' This divison is stated to have defeated the army of Mortier. The Spanish cavalry, it is' added, (lid wonders, It is said .that Blake is, advarxing in the direction of Seville with his army of the Centre of Murcia. • It is cer tain that he carried with him•orders to th - it etf:ct. " . All. the provinces manifest the greatest enthu siasm in the cause we are einbakted in. The'farmers in and about Cuidad Rodrigo, after colleaing what ever provisions • were necessary forthemselves and families, retired with them I to the. Sierra del Gato, having' first serfire to all the fields, Alie remainder of the prJVi‘ , io:ts, and destroyed all the implements of husbandry, and' arriving on the Sierra bid defiance to the enemy. An account 'df this patriotic and heroiC proceeding was received by the ,Regency yes• tetday, and has inspired us all with - fresh con fidence." A . dispensation lately passed the great seal to ena ble the Rev. P. L. GODFREY, B.D. to hold the liv ing of Ayott St. Lawrence, with the living of As ton, both in the County of .Hertford. A . NOVEL WAGER.—Yesterday . a Mr. Graham undertook, for'a wager of to guineas, to go three . times from under the dome of St.. Paul's to the Golden Gallery, and down again, while a Mr. Grant eat 400 oysters. Graham accomplished his undertaking in 38 minutes, arid found Grant with 32 oysters remaining. Mrs. JORDAN has finally settled with Mr. HARRIS, and will commence her farewell engagemtnt at Covent-garden Theatre, in February next. The musical afterpiece composed by - Mr. CoN DELL, is to be one of the'firstnovelties brought for ward at Covent-garden Theatre, as soon as it is restored to another kind of harmony. In conseqtenee of the settlement that has taken place between, Mr. Sheridan and the Drury-lane company, Mr. Colman has given up the idea of aet ing on the winter license he had obtained ;-as in fad he could not have found a suitable company; Considerable retrenchments are made in the Covent Garden establishment this' season. There are five instruments short of the former number ih the band, and the same principle of economy is to prevail throughout. The matter in dispute between the P a t e ntee s an d Performers of Drury•lane Theatre was, it seems, the expence attending the benefits, the latter not con ceiving that they ought to be burthened with addi tional charges on 'account of persons retained by the Patentees, but not necessary in the condua of the Theatre. This point, it is said, has b een conceded ce,deri by the Prop r ieto r s, and harmony bas been fill re-established. SHERIDAN'S obje& in waiting on his I‘l4 JRStY last week, was to solicit a renewal of, the license, under which the Theatre has been conduct ed for some years, till the question respecting the authority of the dormant Patent, alleged to be null and void on account. of disuse, has been fully dis cussed and • settled. Considering, however, the magnitude and variety of intere,ts depending ion that patent, it is by no means likely that the ob jections will be rigidly and 'pertinaciously enforced. _ Two Gentlemen, of the names of Grimsby and Harvey, were yesterday prevented fighting a duel on Oldcase Common, near Wormwood Scrubs, by two Officers of Justice; who took them into cus tody whilst preparing to fire. They were held in substanrial surety. to keep the 'peace. On Monday, as two young men were bathing in Dalton blm; near Lancaster, one of them, named 'Richard Taylor, was unfortunately drowned in at-, tempting to swim ~ over, and the other hed nearly' met with the same fateby humanely' exerting him- S ,, lf to save his companion. The. deceased was a Meniber of Queen's College Oxford, and Usher at the Grammar schoolin -Lanc.aster. 01) Friday se'nnight, by the awful storm of thun der and lightning, at Sandbeck, the seat of the Earl of Scarbro', almost every pane of glass in the sky lights was broken, as well as many of the other win dows, which are thick plate glass. The. havock in the garden is almost beyond description, there be ing ten thousand and eighty-five squares of glass de molished, the tiles of several houses in the neigh bourhood broken, besides other damage done; and Jbout seventy acres of corn materially injured. Se veral pieces of solid ice were picked up, which tllea .sthred from four to seven inches in circumference; and hail-stones were colleted the follow ing morning by bushelS together. At We - kon, near Riley, a horse was struck, and considerable datiuge done to the stabling-. An alarn — iing fire broke out on Tuesday in the dwelling-house of David Fothergill, Esq. at Clewer, Herts, which burnt the same dawn to the ground, together with .a valuable library. The flames were occasioned by a bed being set on fire by the negli gence of a servant maid, who was putting a child to bed. Mr. Foihergill arid his family were from home at the time of the fire, and fortunately no lives were lost. William Hanhury, Esq. of Kilmarsh, is nomi nated to represent the Borougk of Northampton, in the roorn.of the Hon. Edward Bouverie, Esq. de ceased. NAVAL NEWS• PLYMOUTH, SEPT; t —_ Arrived: the ,SMBRI?()N, ory , Bovi DIM E JOSepn MARSRALL, atiel.ll&nus, COTTON,. from Wale s; . d Cotton,. JENKtN,. from Sunderrind ; the Mal. ° 0 Elizabeth, G10.,/tati, iroM . Waterford,' with a car g° of provisions, ly)und, tO Landon. . • . n : SJiltd his Majeity's brig Mariner, with a or c- 0 1 4 of merch4ntmen, fOr the . Downs ; the M°l (1 ~ i Elizabeth, GILLARD, the American ship Cut"'" 0 ISAACS, the Crescent, MURRY; the Tiger, C0 415 ' and the Two Brothers,' Cc:wilt, for London. Arrived, his Majesty's ship Favourite horn a crane' • igg SHEERNESS, SEPT.,l3.—S a il e d hi s Majesty's br 4 Columbine, Captain COLLINS, to Port'smouth) 2° Zephyr ; Captain DICKENS, to Deal. Passed by for Sandgate Creek the Turkish frigate' PORTSMOUTH, SE PT . 13.--Arrivetl this va, bii . . Majesty's' ships Saidanha, 'Beaver, and Pa from the Downs ; his Majesty's ship Revenge ir° 4l Cherhotirgh ; the Henry, HESSELTINE " Jena° CHII ISTAI AS ; AthlS, WILSON; and the Bona , V II ; VISON, from Ltsboh ; th e U n it y , M ONDAY ; and " Prince of Orange, JON ES, from London ; the F aille' JOHNSTONE, from Newcastle; and the NeP luil4 . 4ossoN, from Sunderland. _ This day sailed his Uajesty's ship Leyden for tbe Westward ; the Isabella, BRUNTON ; and tlie deavnur, WILKINSON, for Sunderland; also the Sun, STEELE, for London. DEAL, 13.—Came down from the River the Orb, Sisters, Mount, Hope, Kingston, and 13141.' suit, and sailed to the We,tward with several (Aber ships• The letters by the. ;p:!diz Mail were is ,.ee -, from the Post-Office yesterday rnorning. T hj e 6'l , 5 ; ceeding extracts are. from scene of them—th e noticing an important viCtory by BALeAsmeos MORTI and the second; the destruelion of t` harvest by the patriotic Castili a n s ,. ter deprtve-a enemy. of support, at the hazard e v en of their ° existence. f CADIZ, AUG, 24.-,-There has been . all ° '" -e e. action. between Mortier and Ballasteros. 'n e tt - 4 tack was begun' by the .former; and was con" - o f with great spirit. The 'French, by the ral'id, lt Y' their movements, were lik e ly t o b e successful, ants had turned one of the-wings of the Patriots, General Catrera, who c' -'ands the Spseis h valry in ,the North of An. ,by forced trarc4e" was enabled to enter t :id at the critical LW ment, and pouring do von the eneu'Y' quickly decided the fate .ae ; .The Fre ° , l i, defeated on all sides, tok • rection of yC suffering very.rnaterially d. the rer seit:" It is supposed, that in this acti o n about 9 r , 10,0400 men were . engaged oh each dent of .the horse under Carrera.. t, have " CADIZ, ' AUG. 24,--1-Ttie Castilians, w" ° A !ef not engaged in the immediate duties o f the wart ` l-1 by their generosity and heroism, greatly contri but r e l - to distress the toe. They have set fire to 'thei r , c j t' e . , fields', and have not contented thcm,elVes • stroying merely the produce of the country, „a their waggons, and every species of conveyancer the- utensilwfirch could - be applied to the Purpose ° the. enemy.' In this .situation, thus surrounded by • wide waste, they have collected wh at ever vc 3 ' l l ..e cessary for their /immediate 'subsistence, and .1- e• fled to the mountains, trusting to th e r ighteous tle .7. of their cause, and the bounty of a m e rciful P r ° % .h dence. The consequence has been, that the Fr e° army are every. wnere, in these - once fruitful d it tricts, deprived of the means of iupport, they difficulties for the continuance of the cauiP 3i ' seem to be rendered insuperable." de" The preceding communication will in sarne gree account for the deficiency of provisions 111 ti t ; army of the enemy, in the neighbourhood 0 1 ° la of the most productive provinces in the ` 4ll)°, Pemnsu:a. t here It appears by the letters from Cadii, that 'll l6 have been two expeditions from that port. of following extract supplies the account of the firs t them : at" 'CADIZ, AUG. 26.--Ari expedition, t° l 4 M amount of about 3600'men, was fitted out fro t " a , city, fur the purpose of making a descent 8 , 1 ' A L, monte, whither they proceeded and landed. 1)1) ,,„, -- p tunately SQIDe of the OutimstS the French 0 3- , near St. Mary's, gave the alarm, and i m mediate l Y )e l large force of the enemy was on its march to te' of the attack. The Spaniards' finding they vverl able to meeti the French, re-embarked, an turned." The other expedition consisted of 350 0 tr ien a i which took the direction of Gullva, ti nder Ge ner y de la Cruz, an Officer of wen-known goll' l , lltr r l s '. and fornierty a Commander of a corps of fugL t i, The immediate object of this.oFcration was to e ''' o ir f the coast of Andalusia of the enemy, to the wc . “ Cadiz, and to se..ure the means of transit for P I visions from thence to the Isle of Leon. great In one of the letters, it is mew jotted with confidence, that the force of the enemy is go " 1 reduced, and the comparative str e ngth of the 01 " 7e ', so considerable, that Mortier will soon be under. tb6 ' necessity of leaving Seville, and that the com l.-11°n' ; cation between Cadiz 'and that city will be r estored : before learnt, that a measure of precaution , the beautiful train of artillery from the foundel of S e ; ville, had been removed by the enemy, and 13 : 1 ‘` reached the army under Massena. A most melancholy accident happened neat Kentsbank on the Connie' side of Morecambe Ea)' on the Lancashire coast, on Thursday se'poigl a As )lisi Beever, of Manchester, was bathing in sea, it is suppOsed she fell, and a maid-servan t, longinging to Mr. Ashburner, of Kentsbank, wb ° acconripanied her to the water-tide,,but was not Lo t : drest, went to'her assisiaece, wheir t h e y were bo tlj ' unfortunately drowned,